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X12 - 997 - Functional Acknowledgement
X12 - 997 - Functional Acknowledgement
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Product: X12 EDI

Transaction: 997


997 - Functional Acknowledgment
FUNCTIONAL GROUP=FA

This X12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Functional Acknowledgment Transaction Set (997) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to define the control structures for a set of acknowledgments to indicate the results of the syntactical analysis of the electronically encoded documents. The encoded documents are the transaction sets, which are grouped in functional groups, used in defining transactions for business data interchange. This standard does not cover the semantic meaning of the information encoded in the transaction sets.


SCHEMA


ST

Segment

Name

Position

ST

0100

AK1

Functional Group Response Header

0200

AK2

Segment

Name

Position

AK2

Transaction Set Response Header

0300

AK3

Segment

Name

Position

AK3

Data Segment Note

0400

AK4

Data Element Note

0500

AK5

Segment

Name

Position

AK5

Transaction Set Response Trailer

0600

AK9

Segment

Name

Required

AK9

Functional Group Response Trailer

0700

SE

Transaction Set Trailer

0800


Comments


Notes

1/0100

These acknowledgments shall not be acknowledged, thereby preventing an endless cycle of acknowledgments of acknowledgments. Nor shall a Functional Acknowledgment be sent to report errors in a previous Functional Acknowledgment.

1/0100

There is only one Functional Acknowledgment Transaction Set per acknowledged functional group.

1/0100

Only one acknowledgement, either a single Transaction Set 997 or a single Transaction Set 999, should be generated for a functional group unless mutually agreed upon.

1/0200

AK1 is used to respond to the functional group header and to start the acknowledgment for a functional group. There shall be one AK1 segment for the functional group that is being acknowledged.

1/0200

The Functional Acknowledgement is generated at the point of translation, intended for the originator (not any intermediate parties).

1/0200

The Functional Group Header Segment (GS) is used to start the envelope for the Functional Acknowledgment Transaction Sets. In preparing the functional group of acknowledgments, the application sender's code and the application receiver's code, taken from the functional group being acknowledged, are exchanged; therefore, one acknowledgment functional group responds to only those functional groups from one application receiver's code to one application sender's code.

1/0300

AK2 is used to start the acknowledgment of a transaction set within the received functional group. The AK2 segments shall appear in the same order as the transaction sets in the functional group that has been received and is being acknowledged.

Comments

1/0400

The data segments of this standard are used to report the results of the syntactical analysis of the functional groups of transaction sets; they report the extent to which the syntax complies with the standards or proper subsets of transaction sets and functional groups. They do not report on the semantic meaning of the transaction sets (for example, on the ability of the receiver to comply with the request of the sender).

rev 11/19/2024

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